Again, that is Q&A executive producer Peter McEvoy setting up and taking free hits and not allowing anyone the right of reply. No balance.

But he wouldn't be finding it necessary to indulge in such extraordinary rationalising, self-justification and blame-shifting, unless he believed there was a case to answer.

Definitely not the Aunty that the public, taxpayers, used to support but now are being forced to against their wishes. It is 'their' international socialist ABC and not the public's ABC.

Honestly, isn't it time that the government had some independent global consultancy perform a comprehensive audit of the combined ABC and SBS?

All these alleged problems can be overcome by the use of the "off switch".

If you want "totally fair and completely unbiased" commentary, there's always Andrew Bolt on TV and countless pundits on the radio, including Amanda Vanstone's Counterpoint on ABC's Radio National.

The forums 'Usual Suspects' are so used to being feed a diet of right wing swill from shock jocks, the Murdoch gutter press, cable news etc etc. Anything that is remotely unbiased invokes rabid calls for crucifixion. The ABC is behind the eight ball to start with as this ratbag mob philosophically oppose independent public broadcasting. They would much prefer a Goebbels inspired extreme right propaganda outlet. Just ask the Hansonite who started the thread.

Hi Paul,

Haere ra ! As one of the 'Usual Suspects', thank you for that subdued comment. I wish you would come out and tell us what you really think :)

Like most people on the Left, I have always been an ABC person, since at least 1950, from memory. We considered all commercial stations to be perverted by capitalism at its worst. Well, except for the serials.

But, like some other people, I can do the maths each week and roughly assess the complexion of each contestant on the Q & A game-show, some of whom have been on time and again. Of course, there always has to be a 'right-winger', a patsy, on each week for the others and the 37 % Labour/Green audience to get stuck into in its entirety - that's mandatory. But the Dorothy Dixers to Tony Jones and his impartial tendency to cut off or side-track those 'right-wingers' makes the program tiresome. And the same tired old questions from the 'random audience member' to cut the 'right-winger' to pieces with. So I don't bother any more.

I look forward to the time when the ABC runs impartial programs. I think it used to, but maybe it's me that's moved, or maybe the ABC and I have moved simultaneously but in opposite directions, me to the Left and the ABC to the faux-Left.

And incidentally, how on earth and in what universe, can Islamo-fascism be considered remotely 'Left' ? i.e. something to be defended by the faux-Left ? And for a criticism of fascist ideology to be diverted vas somehow an attack on people, i.e. racism ? What ever happened to the ability of the genuine Left to fearlessly expose fascism wherever they found it ?

Cheers,

Joe

Paul without a doubt Q&A would be one of the most bias shows on air, always playing to the vitims like the gays, indiginous and the likes and i guess given the usual host, Tony Jones, i guess thats to be expected.

As for the show, i too thnik its a great laugh and i will never forget Bob Katters response when asked about his thoughts on gay marriage. It was a hoot. Utube it if you want because he put things into prospective, as he often does.

+1 to what the previous poster has said.

Sadly missed are the Left uni lecturers of old, dressed immaculately casual and voices of (real) equality, freedom and hope, even if that hope was misplaced in the Marxism that even they wistfully conceded was failing.

What about the red-flagon fuelled jazz musicians, independent and proud of it and Left by nature and choice, to escape the nuisance, limitations and bothering of society and State?

If there was one thing they all agreed on as not negotiable, it was that freedom of speech was paramount and for ALL.

They would have immediately recognised the cant, manipulation and sly attempts at social reengineering of the ABC's Q&A for what it is, $1.3 billion of taxpayers' being used for propaganda and to instil political correctness in a dumbed-dwon audience.

It is the rare exception where the puppet-master behind slick frontmen like Tony Jones is squeezed by public embarrassment to finally emerge from behind his protective barriers to practise his dark arts of rhetoric direct on the public. It is the arrogance and elitism of Peter McEvoy, Q&A executive producer, that leads him to believe in his spin, his barrage of red herrings, might fox a viewing public who have already learned to distrust him.

However it appears that the real forces behind the social reengineering focus of Q&A are quite ruthless and are getting prepared to hang Peter McEvoy, Q&A executive producer, out to dry. It is to that faceless elite, that Peter MvEvoy is making his plea for support and not so much to the ‘Basket of Deplorables', or the 'Useful Idiots', who wouldn't know what's good for them anyhow and need to be told.

It there were any real Left about, they would be clamouring for the exposure of the elite hiding behind Peter McEvoy and demanding accountability. These sinister forces are ruthless and obviously have no compunction about the necessary sacrifice (richly deserved though it is) of an executive producer who was likely complying with their hidden, secondary editorial policy and 'way for Australia'.